Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. Steinheil

This suit was brought by Mrs. O. B. Steinheil, the mother and legal guardian of Louise Steinheil, an adult incompetent, to recover damages to compensate an assault committed upon her daughter while she was a passenger on one of appellant’s street cars by a fellow-passenger, and from a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor in the sum of $5,000 is this appeal.

On Sunday night, August 17, 1930, Louise Steinheil, a white girl, then 18 years of age, after attending church with her another, left her mother and boarded an outbound Pulaski Heights street car at Markham and Main streets in the city…